D-Link DGS-3612G Product Manual - Page 386

Port Auth PAE State BackendState PortStatus MAC Address xStack® DGS-3600 Series Layer 3 Managed Gigabit Ethernet Switch The port number of the reauthenticated port. The Authenticator State will display one of the following: Initialize, Disconnected, Connecting, Authenticating, Authenticated, Aborting, Held, ForceAuth, ForceUnauth, and N/A. The Backend State will display one of the following: Request, Response, Success, Fail, Timeout, Idle, Initialize, and N/A. The status of the controlled port can be Authorized, Unauthorized, or N/A. Displays the physical address of the Switch where the port resides. Web-based Access Control (WAC) Web-based Access Control is another portbased access control method implemented similarly to the 802.1X port-based access control method previously stated. This function will allow user authentication through a RADIUS server or through the local authentication set on the Switch when a user is trying to access the network via the Switch, if the port connected to the user is enabled for this feature. The user attempting to gain Web access will be prompted for a user name and password before being allowed to accept HTTP packets from the Switch. Once authenticated, the user will be placed in a target VLAN (if have) on the Switch where it will have rights and privileges to openly access the Internet. If denied access, no packets will pass through to the user. Once a client has been authenticated on a particular port, that port will be placed in the pre-configured VLAN and any other clients on that port will be automatically authenticated to access the specified Redirection Path URL, as well as the authenticated client. To the right there is an example of the basic six steps all parties of the authentication go through for a successful Web-based Access Control process. Figure 7- 33. The 6-Step WAC Authentication Process 370